Walmart wants to open its fifth Neighborhood Market store in Springfield, but voters in the city of 160,000 are to decide on Aug. 6 whether to repeal zoning now allowing the store to be built. Springfield's City Council voted, 5-4, in February to allow land for what was once a megachurch to be used for the store.

Russellville voters will consider a similar issue on Aug. 13 after enough residents signed a petition calling for a special election to repeal a zoning ordinance passed in April by the Russellville City Council. The decision paved the way for construction of Russellville's second Walmart store on South Vancouver Avenue between West Main Street and West Second Street.

Opposition groups in both cities argue that traffic at the stores would generate too much congestion in the neighborhoods. Walmart changed plans last year for a store in Bella Vista after local opposition.

Walmart's Neighborhood Market stores are grocery stores and much smaller than Supercenters, which combine groceries and general merchandise.

Whitney Snipes and The Associated Press contributed information to this report.

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Does Russellville need to have an election to say yes or no to the rezoning ordinance approved by the City Council that would allow a Walmart Neightborhood Market to be built off of West Main Street in Russellville?